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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Jaime Bozza wrote:

> 
> We've been running FreeBSD systems (Currently 2.1.7's and 2.2.1's) with
> 3C509 cards in them for a while.  I'm curious about the driver support for
> the 3C900 (Etherlink XL) card.  I know the support exists, but how *IS*
> it?  Even though LINT says the 3C509 support is buggy, we've never had an
> issue of the systems not working, crashing, etc...
> 
> Basically, is the 3C900 support mature enough to use in a live situation?

It worked okay for me.  I had a lot of input and output errors, although I
think this was linked to the cable I was using.

The 3c900 has very little onboard cache; if this machine is going to be
busy, you may not want to use this. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major